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Chewa
Chewa

Burmese
Burmese



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Countries

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe
Myanmar

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Myanmar

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Zambia
Mon

Regulated By

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Myanmar Language Commission

Interesting Facts

  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  • The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
  • It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.

Similar To

Zulu language
Thai Language

Derived From

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Pali Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3133
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

512
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1833
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Tangut

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

32 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moni
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)

Thank You

Zikomo
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)

Good Night

Usiku wabwino
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)

Please

Chonde
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)

Sorry

pepani
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)

Bye

anatsanzikana
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)

I Love You

Ndimakukondani
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)

Excuse Me

Pepani
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu
Arakanese

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda
Tavoyan

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Myanmar

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.00440,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimaravi
Intha

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Burma

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0090,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

55
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million43.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %0.50 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million33.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nyanja
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja
birman

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache
Birmanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]
[bəmɛ̀]

Ethnicity

Chewa people
Bamar people

History

Origin

15th Century
1113 AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman

Branch

Bantu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese

Standard Forms

Chewa
Modern Burmese

Language Position

2743
1 120
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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language
Burmese sign language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ny
my

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya
mya

ISO 639 2/B

nya
bur

ISO 639 3

nya
mya

ISO 639 6

nya
mya

Glottocode

nyan1308
sout3159

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Isolating

Chewa and Burmese Alphabets

Chewa and Burmese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chewa and Burmese. In Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters while in Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Chewa and Burmese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chewa and Burmese languages. The Chewa phonology consist Chewa vowels and Chewa consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Chewa greetings vs Burmese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chewa and Burmese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Chewa and Burmese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Chewa and Burmese dialects. Various dialects of Chewa and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chewa are spoken in different Chewa Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chewa vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chewa dialects include: Kasungu, Kikamtunda. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Chewa and Burmese Speaking population

Chewa and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chewa and Burmese on Chewa vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and Burmese Language Codes

Chewa and Burmese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chewa and Burmese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.